पूय्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *puH- (to be foul, rotten; stink). Cognate with Ancient Greek πῦον (pûon), Latin pūs (pus), Latin putridus (putrid), Lithuanian pū́ti (to rot), Old English fūl whence English foul.

Pronunciation

Root

पूय् • (pūy)

  1. to become foul or putrid
  2. to stink

Derived terms

References

  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “पूय्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016